Meat package



June 4, 1935.

H. H. MCKEE MEAT PACKAGE Filed June 21, 1933 fl iirg/ fi M Kee INVENTORwpwuz-ss ATTORNEY Patented June 4, 1935 I Y i UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE MEAT PACKAGE Harry H. McKee, Chicago, 111., assignor toIndustrial Patents Corporation, Chicago, 111., a corporation of DelawareApplication June 21, 1933, Serial No. 676,837

1 Claim. (Cl. 206-46) This invention relates to an improved meat toprovide a package as shown in Figure 2. The package and particularly toa retail sliced bacon present invention contemplates utilizing a stiiipening member 1 which may be of cardboard, the

One of the objects of this invention is to proedges 4 and 6 being thenfolded over in the usual vide an improved retail sliced bacon package.way in such manner that the stiffening member 5 Other objects will beapparent from the descrip- 1 is contained permanently within the packagetion and claim which follows. providing a positive means for retainingthe de- The manner of preparing this improved meat sired shape of thepackage. package is shown in the drawing in which: In wrapping packagesof bacon of this type,

10 Figure 1 is a perspective view of a plurality of it is customary tofold the flat batch of slices over 10 bacon slices placed in overlappingrelationship, a metal plate to secure the proper size, the metal on apiece of cellulosic wrapping material. plate being removed before thepackage is placed Figure 2 is a perspective view of the finished in ashipping box in a display carton. P The withdrawal of the metal memberoften Sliced bacon is conventionally marketed in renecessitatesretucking of the edges of the wrap- 15 tail packages either by packingthe slices in small ping material at one end of the package. The boxesor cartons or, in the case of smaller packuse of a cardboard insertwhich is permitted to ages such as half-pound packages, wrapping aremain in the package eliminates the withdrawal plurality of slices inany desired wrapping maoperation and the retucking operation.

terial such, for example, as a transparent cel- In the forming of thepackage of the present 20 lulosic covering. invention, the use of ametal plate is rendered Inasmuch as the bacon is unfrozen and, there--unnecessary since the fiat stiffening member 1 fore, necessarilyflaccid, the packages do not preis a cardboard plate and serves as abase upon sent an attractive appearance after handling which to fold thebatch of slices. It will be seen independently. A that the presentinvention provides a novel sliced It is one of the purposes of thepresent invenbacon package of desirable characteristics and tion toprovide a meat package of this type which overcomes many of the defectsinherent in the may be prepared in the usual way but which type ofpackage previously used. will be rigid and will consequently retain itsshape I claim:

and appearance during normal handling. A sliced bacon package comprisinga flat, cen- 30 In the preparation of packages of this type, tralstiffening member, a plurality of overlapped it is customary to arrangethe slices l as shown slices of bacon folded about said stiffening meminFigure 1 upon a sheet of wrapping material as her and a sheet ofwrapping material holding the 2, the edges are then folded over as at 3,4, 5 and bacon in position on said stiffening member.

I and the edges 4 and 8 turned upon themselves HARRY H. McKEE. 35

